Galileo was a great sciencetist in florence. He made a lot of great discoveries like the fact that the moon has craters and that we are not the center of the universe. Many people did not believe him, because they believed in Aristotle who said the opposite of Galileo. Galileo did not acre about what people said he still continued his ideas and experiments. He Got in a lot of trouble with the church, because he did not believe the ideas of Aristotle. Galileo wrote a book about he's discoveries, and he wrote it in Italian so any person could read it.
As you can see in this picture the moon does have craters. Aristotle believed taht the moon did not ahve any craters and this is what people believed but galileo proved them wrong and showed them that the moon does have craters.
In 1610 galileo looked trough his telescope and he tought that he was looking at three different planets. But in 1655 he discovered that saturn has rings.Galileo also discovered that Saturn had moons at either sides. One night while he was trying to look at the rings of saturn he discovered that they were gone and he was really confused about this. What he ddid not know is that the earth had passed trough saturns ring.
Galileo was a great sciencetist in florence. He made a lot of great discoveries like the fact that the moon has craters and that we are not the center of the universe. Many people did not believe him, because they believed in Aristotle who said the opposite of Galileo. Galileo did not acre about what people said he still continued his ideas and experiments. He Got in a lot of trouble with the church, because he did not believe the ideas of Aristotle. Galileo wrote a book about he's discoveries, and he wrote it in Italian so any person could read it.
As you can see in this picture the moon does have craters. Aristotle believed taht the moon did not ahve any craters and this is what people believed but galileo proved them wrong and showed them that the moon does have craters.
In 1610 galileo looked trough his telescope and he tought that he was looking at three different planets. But in 1655 he discovered that saturn has rings.Galileo also discovered that Saturn had moons at either sides. One night while he was trying to look at the rings of saturn he discovered that they were gone and he was really confused about this. What he ddid not know is that the earth had passed trough saturns ring.